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It’s difficult enough for aspiring filmmakers to get attention crafting works in their mother tongue. But Montreal natives Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion chose to up the ante by creating a web series in Yiddish, albeit with English subtitles. However, lest anyone get the impression that their YidLife Crisis series is some sort of homage to such Yiddish literature luminaries like Sholem Alecheim or Isaac Bashevis Singer, be warned that this web series is anything but. The boys are more steeped in the tradition of Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, Woody Allen and Jackie Mason. Which is to say that the humour is rooted in much irreverence, but with a Yiddish twist.

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